There was joy and excitement in Cleethorpes this morning as birthday girl Jeanie-May Cooke was delivered 2,000 cards from all over the world following her appeal.

Jeanie-May, who is today celebrating her eighth birthday, tragically lost her leg a few weeks ago due to complications with the leukaemia that she has been battling for the past year and had one special request for her birthday - that people send her as many cards as possible.

Since making the appeal just three weeks ago, her message has captured the hearts of thousands from all over the world, with cards being sent to the brave young girl from as fair away as Texas and South-East Asia.

Jeanie-May Cooke from Cleethorpes who is under treatment for Leukaemia, has her birthday wish answered as around 2000 birthday cards are delivered to her home on her 8th birthday

The birthday girl was up bright and early this morning, gazing out out of her front window awaiting the arrival of the postman, eager to see just how many cards she had been sent.

When Royal Mail delivery man Tony Coutts arrived, it took him eight trips back and forth from his van to deliver all the cards.

Jeanie-May Cooke waiting for the postman!

Surrounded by the thousands of cards that had been sent to her, the birthday girl thought that it would take her a few days to open them all and was very excited to see who has sent her a card, as a number of famous faces, such as former England captain John Terry, had shared her appeal.

Along with the cards Jeanie-May also got a whole host of presents, with a personalised electric guitar and a trampoline.

Uncle Liam Quickfall and postman Tony Coutts bring in boxes full of cards

She has been making such good progress following her life-changing operation that she is now bouncing around on trampolines and can even do a front flip.

A slightly overwhelmed Jeanie-May gave thanks to everyone who had sent her a card this morning saying: "I can't believe that I have been sent so many cards this morning, it is amazing.

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"I think I am going to be opening these for days!

"Thank you to everyone that has sent me a card."

Jeanie-May Cooke surrounded by some of the 2,000 cards that she received on her birthday

Her mother Katie Hannaford said: "I really can't believe how many people have wanted to send a card to Jeanie-May, it just shows you how many nice people there are out there, it has really made her day.

"For the past week she has been doing so well, going for a little trip to Thorpe Park and even going on the trampolines and doing front flips.

"She had so much fun on them that we got her a trampoline of her own."

Jeanie-May's uncle Liam Quickfall had organised the birthday card appeal for Jeanie-May, having the cards sent to his business and the Grimsby Live office, so that they could all be delivered to her house on her birthday morning.

Jeanie-May Cooke from Cleethorpes who is under treatment for Leukaemia, has her birthday wish answered as around 2000 birthday cards are delivered to her home on her 8th birthday. Jeanie-May with, from left, mum Katie Hannaford, stepdad, Luke Barker, sister Poppy Barker, 3, Uncle Liam Quickfall and postman Tony Coutts.

Liam said: "To be honest I never thought that we would get such an amazing response to the appeal. I thought that we might be able to get a couple of hundred initially, but shortly after posting the video on Facebook thousands of people had shared and viewed it, so I knew we were onto something.

"I was shocked to see that people like John Terry and Stiliyan Petrov had shared the appeal, so I imagine there is a card or two in there from them.